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Organization and Behaviour
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Sean Ward
5/27/2010
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Tesco history
Estate Services history
Tesco functional structure
Estate Services Pre-bureaucratic structures
Tesco Scientific management approach
Estate services the human relations management approach
Tesco Paternalistic management style
Estate services Autocratic management style
Managerial roles
Conclusion

Tesco history
Tesco PLC is a UK based supermarket chain. It is the largest British retailer, both by global sales and domestic market share, and the fourth largest retailer in the world behind Wal-Mart of the USA, Carrefour of France, and The Home Depot of the USA. Tesco PLC is listed on the LSE...
Tesco started life as a 1 man business in London's East End. Tesco was founded by Jack Cohen, son of a Polish Jewish tailor. He sold groceries in markets of the East End from 1919. The Tesco brand first appeared in 1924. The name derived after Jack Cohen bought a large shipment of tea of T.E. Stockwell, formerly Messrs Torring and Stockwell of Mincing Lane, he made new labels by using the first 3 letters of a supplier's name and the first 2 letters of his surname forming the word "TESCO". There is a wide mis-conception that the name is an abbreviation of the name of Jack Cohen's wife, Tessa Cohen, becoming TESCO, this is wrong as Jack was never married to a Tessa.
Estate services history
Estate Services is located at Iona Business Park in Derry. Incorporated on 11th July 2003, the company is a community owned enterprise. The Board of Directors is made up of both men and women, and includes people from, the community, voluntary, and business sectors, all of whom have a vested interest in promoting the aims of Estate Services, which is to create employment opportunities through the establishment of a sustainable social economy enterprise in an area of traditionally high unemployment.

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